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Davenport Cornet Band

The New Era reports a contract for Davenport’s fifteen-piece Cornet band to furnish music throughout a reunion, playing morning and afternoon and closing each day with a concert.

Davenport Cornet Band reunion contract
Davenport Cornet Band reunion contract · Original source

The documented story

The report establishes a detailed engagement and approximate size but not the band’s formation or ending.

People and leadership

No director or complete roster is identified in the reviewed report.

Community and organization

The band is hired for a civic reunion; the contracting organization is not identified as the band’s owner.

Reading the evidence

The engagement is documented, but the complete institutional chronology is not.

Questions for further research

Search Davenport newspapers for the reunion outcome, director, and membership.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1910-07-14

    Davenport’s fifteen-piece Cornet band was contracted to provide morning, afternoon, and closing-concert music throughout a week-long reunion.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc149875/m1/1/